>It isn't overkill to use a text file and delimit your parameters with xml
>tags in something referred to as an XML document. In this case I would
>suggest it is overkill to have an xsd or dtd file to correspond to an XML
>parameter document. Having the tags just makes it a tad bit easier to
>understand and less likely to make mistakes when maintaining the parameter
>data than if you used a comma-quote delimited file for the same purpose.

Hi Dawn,

mAmsterdam was comparing XML to traditional techniques as .INI files. I
agree with him (her?) - I fail to see how